Order CHARADRIIFORMES 
No. 169. 
Family CHARADRIIDJE. 
ZONIFER TRICOLOR GWENDOLEN.®. 
VYESTEKN BLACK-BREASTED PLOVER. 
(Plate 131.)* 
ZoNiFER TRICOLOR GWENDOLENiE Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 216, 1912 ; West 
Australia. 
Zonifer tricolor Ogilvie-Grant, Ibis 1910, p, 182 ; Carter, ih., p. 657. 
Zonifer tricolor gwendolenoe Mathews, Nov, Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 216, 1912. 
Distribution. South-west Australia. 
Adult male. General colour above purplish-bronze somewhat paler on the hind-neck ; 
darker and inclining to blackish on the lower-back ; lesser wing-coverts rather 
darker than the back ; the small coverts on the outer edge of the wing dark brown 
edged with white ; median-coverts tipped with white ; the greater series almost 
entirely white ; tail white, with a broad black band at the tip, the outer feathers 
fringed with white at the ends ; crown of head, cheeks, sides of neck, and breast 
black, the latter with a purplish gloss ; in front of the eye an oval-shaped red 
wattle ; a line behind the eye, throat, and fore-neck white, like the abdomen, under 
tail-coverts, axillaries, and under wing-coverts ; bill, iris, and eyelid canary -yellow ; 
knees and tibia dark crimson ; tarsi and feet black ; soles of feet dark greyish 
flesh-colour ; wattle bright red. Total length 284 mm. ; culmen 22, wing 194, 
tail 83, tarsus 49. 
Adult female. Similar to the adult male. 
Immature. Has the marginal wing-coverts above edged with rufous. 
Young, in nestling -plumage {partial doum). Rufous-brown on the upper-parts With 
indistinct barrings of sandy-buff ; forehead, sides of crown, and nape covered with 
black-and-buff down ; a narrow white hne under the eye, continued over ear-coverts 
and around the hind-neck ; ear-coverts pale brown ; throat, abdomen, and sides 
of body white ; tail, composed of down, blackish, tipped with white. 
Mr. Tom Carter, who collected the type of this bird, says : “I have not 
seen this species further north than about the latitude of Perth. It occurs 
not uncommonly on cultivated and open grass lands from 50 miles east of 
that town as far south at least as Broome Hill, in which locality it has largely 
increased since my arrival there in 1905, no doubt owing to fresh areas being 
cleared and cropped every year. They may be seen almost all the year round, 
but are emigrating to a certain extent. About November, when the young 
* The Plate is lettered Zonifer tricolor. 
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